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AmyJade
Since: Jan, 2001
98.247.17.30
Since: Dec, 1969
Wynne101
Since: Aug, 2010
UltramarineAlizarin
Since: Jan, 2001
2011-08-25 11:30:29
Might it be Caddie Woodlawn
? The eponymous girl is a tomboy, and it does have that tense meeting with Indians — in particular, they were admiring Caddie's hair, so her family was worrying about her getting scalped. Can't remember too many other details in the story, unfortunately.
Wynne101
Since: Aug, 2010

A book that was in my elementary school library, about a girl and her pioneer family. IIRC, she resents being out there or feels her family doesn't appreciate her or something. I DO remember that they lived in a sod house, and that they get visited by a couple of Native Americans at one point, which is a really tense moment because they think the Indians are going to kill them, but they just end up eating some food or something, and one of the Native Americans gives the girl an eagle feather for her courage. I also remember that there was a prairie fire near the end, when the girl is alone with her younger cousin, and she saves them by going down into the well.